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G. C. PHILLIPS.

WATER 'GLOSET TANK PLUSHING APPARATUS.

Patented June 7, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE OHILSON PHILLIPS, OF PROVIDENCE, I tI'IODE ISLAND.

WATER-CLOSET-TANK FLUSHNG APPARATUS.-

SPIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.34,28 9, dated June 7, 1887.

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To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE CHILsoN PHI IJ4 LIPS, ofthe city and county of Providence, of the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvementin VaterUloset- Tank Flushing Apparatus5vand I do hereby declare the same to be described in the follow- Speciiication, and represented in the accom panying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section, of an apparatus involving1 my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

In the drawings, A denotes the valve, and B the seat thereof, of the educt or water-closet tank,while C is the usual overfiow-pipe of the tank, such pipe being screwed into an educt, a, leading into the valve-seat case b, as shown.

Extending from the side of the educt c is a short tubular projection, c, into which there is screwed a cylindrical tube, D, which is open at its lower and is closed at its upper end, except in having an opening, d, through it, and a valve, c, to such opening, such valve being to open upward.

Eucompassing and fitting on the tube D is another tube or barrel, E,which is open atits lower and closed at its upper end. From the tube E an arm, f, extends over and is connected to the valve by a short chain or two links, g, the wire h for raising the valve being connected to such arm. Furthermore, there is encompassing the ovcrfow-pipe an adjustable gage, G, to extend directly over the top of the tube E, such gage sliding freely on the pipe, and being provided with a setscrew, i, for fastening it to the pipe at any desirable altitude thereon. The said gage becomes a stop for regulating the height to which the valve and tube E may be raised. On pulling upward the valve the barrel E will rise with it, and while such barrel is sliding upward on its guide and induction-tube D water will be drawn from the latter upward through the valve-seat and into the said barrel E. In and down along the outer surface of the pipe D there is a groove, 7c, or instead thereof a fiattening of the surface, to enable water during descent of the barrel E to slowly escape there- 'from between it and the pipe D.

From the above it will be seen that by means of a liftingpump constructed and applied to the tanlcvalve, substantially as described, the period of descent of such valve may be determined by the time taken for the water drawn into the pump to escape from its barrel, such lifting-pump having its barrel E so connected with the eduction-valve of the water-closet tank as to rise and fall with such water. The amount of water discharged from the tank during each fall of the valve will dcpend on the period consumed in the descent of the barrel E. The part D is to open at bottom freely into the tank, so that water can readily ilow into such part D.

I do not claim, broadly, the combination of a liftingpump with the flushing-valve of a water-closet, such pump being to regulate the closing of such valve.

l. The combination, with the water-closet ilushiugvaive A, ofthelifting-pump, substantially as described, arranged wholly aside thereof, the arm f, extending from the barrel of such pump directly over the valve and connected to its operative wire so as to be movable therewith and with such valve, as set forth, the adjustable gage projecting directly over the pump-barrel and applied to the overflow-pipe, such pump being composed of the tube D, the valve and its seat in the upper part thereof, and the barrel E, closed at top and encompassing the tube D, and pro vided with an educt or means of discharging water from it, (the said barrel,) as explained.

2,. The combination, with the tank overiiow-pipe and the water-closet flushing-valve `of such tank, and the lifting-pump, sub- )lied to suchoverflowi e and haviinr means l P s of fixing it (the said gage) in position on such pipe, all being substantially as represented.,

Vitnesses:

n. H. EDDY, It. B. TORREY. 

